Saturday, 13 June 2009

The Association of Train Operating Companies is due to give unprecedented backing to the restoration of disused track and the reintroduction of passenger services on other routes which currently only carry freight.Excitingly ATOC members propose using taxpayers money to do this rather than their own.

No matter.

The list of lines is strangely familiar...

Lines... include the Uckfield to Lewes line in East Sussex, the Bristol to Portishead line and Yorkshire's Harrogate-Ripon-Northallerton route... the restoration of the Manton Curve in Rutland... while reopening the Woodhead line from Manchester to Sheffield...Can it be?

"NINETY-FOUR per cent of people taking part in a Sheffield Council poll say they are opposed to the introduction of ticket barriers at Sheffield railway station, which would prevent people using the railway bridge to access the city centre.

To date 4,000 people have voted on the Sheffield City Council website.